Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were accepted, Sherm made it as nice as could be. Regulars soon learned his coded hand signals and chuckled knowingly when the Coke-drinking, table-hopping host pulled his ear. That meant that a watching waiter should call him to the phone. A pull at his nose meant, "These are unimportant people-don't cash any checks for them." Favored guests were lavished with everything from an orchid to a car (he gave away more than two dozen over the years...
...more. They commissioned Old Pro Mel Brooks (The 2,000-Year-Old Man) and Young Pro Buck (TW3) Henry to hack out a script about a fumbling hero. Instead, Brooks and Henry decided to make him a bumbling zero. Brooks recalls, "I was sick of looking at all those nice sensible situation comedies. They were such distortions of life. If a maid ever took over my house like Hazel, I'd set her hair on fire. I wanted to do a crazy, unreal comic-strip kind of thing about something besides a family. No one had ever done...
...next season the screen will be Smarting with maimed heavies and mentally defective detectives. And so it will go, until one day someone looking for Big Money in television comes up with a new idea: "People are tired of crazy, improbable situation comedies. How about a show with a nice normal middle-class family. Only they have this maid, see? And she tries to take over...
Persistence of sectarianism is promoted strongly by the "conspiracy of silence" or so-called "religious toleration." There is a deadly parallel between the "conspiracy of silence" on sectarianism today with the "conspiracy of silence" on the "social diseases" a few years ago. So long as people were "too nice" to mention gonorrhea and syphilis, these diseases went largely untreated and ate away at countless victims. Because we are "too nice" to call attention to the errors and other evils within one another's sectarianism, they eat away at our religious life. The less defensible the practices of a sect...
...able to find a judge who agrees that Ari should be forced by law to sell his shares or give up his voting rights. Then, presumably, the way would be clear for Rainier to set about shaping his princely domain into another St. Tropez-or, who knows, perhaps another Nice...